Haggai 1:1-2

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It Is Time to Build the Temple

1 The prophet Haggai spoke the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, the governor of Judah [Ezra 2:2; 3:2; Zech. 6:9–14], and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest [^Calso known as Jeshua; Ezra 2:2; 3:2; 5:2; Zech. 3:1–10]. This message came in the second year that Darius was king [520 bc], on the first day of the sixth month [^CAugust 29; Elul 1 on the Hebrew calendar]:

² “This is what the Lord ·All-Powerful [Almighty; of Heaven’s Armies; ^Tof hosts] says: ‘The people say the right time has not come to rebuild the ·Temple [^Lhouse] of the Lord.’”